Graduation
Jun. 16th, 2004 11:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xaaraI went to my sister's sixth grade graduation today and cried my eyes out. Those kids are so perfect, and they think they know everything about the world. They told us they'd discovered themselves, and that they were focused on certain aspects of their lives that they wanted to pursue into careers. And I don't have the heart to tell them that in a few years they'll most likely be more confused than they've ever been. They'll discover facets of their personalities that they never dreamed existed, and they'll find other hobbies with which to occupy their time. They'll find new friends, and maybe they'll do stupid things like smoking and drinking and doing drugs and having sex.
They want so badly to grow up; I often want to return to elementary school. Life is so much simpler there. You know what you want, and you know how to get it, and that's the end of the story. Now half the time I don't know what I want and the other half - when I do know - I have to spend copious amounts of time working, begging, coercing.
One girl stood in front of the school and said she was like "hcram - the opposite of March. I came in like a lamb and went out like a lion. I found myself here at Janney."
I wanted to pick her up and hold her and breathe into her hair and tell time to stop.
Instead, I clapped politely and waited for the next speech.
They want so badly to grow up; I often want to return to elementary school. Life is so much simpler there. You know what you want, and you know how to get it, and that's the end of the story. Now half the time I don't know what I want and the other half - when I do know - I have to spend copious amounts of time working, begging, coercing.
One girl stood in front of the school and said she was like "hcram - the opposite of March. I came in like a lamb and went out like a lion. I found myself here at Janney."
I wanted to pick her up and hold her and breathe into her hair and tell time to stop.
Instead, I clapped politely and waited for the next speech.
